From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-05-15 15:47:31 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Raw Instinct
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Just a couple of FYIs:
1. while organs can be called "organ meats" in most references you will typically find them
mentioned as specific organs and not as meat. This is because meat usually in nutritional
references refers specifically to muscle tissue and the associated collagen products, fat,
etc., sometimes also associated skin is included (but skin differs in the nutrients it
provides compared to meat). It is important to make the designation because organs
tends to be good sources of minerals, with the levels of the minerals varying among
organs. Meat itself is very low in many nutrients, including minerals. Hence, meat being
very different from organs, and organs being very different from each other. BTW, meats
themselves differ, for example, in levels of different amino acids.
2. when reading references and learning about foods: not all seeds are grains just as not
all seeds are nuts, and not all carbohydrates are only from grains. Grains are specifically
the seeds of members of the grass grouping such as corn, wheat, rice, rye, etc. You will
also read them called cereals in some nutrition texts, though that can be a broader term.
The seeds of vegetables such as gourds/squashes or legumes are not grains. Now there
are also "grains of starch" which means little kernels of starch no matter what the source,
but that is a descriptive use of the word rather than a designation. BTW, having a large
amount of grains in the diet as humans and theropithecus monkeys do is called
gramnivory. (Ex: humans are omnivores with a high level os gramnivory.)
Knowing those differences can make some of the references out there more clear. For
example, providing a whole animal diet balances the diet, but there are people who have
assumed that feeding just meat is as good when that sole diet long term results in a series
of nutritional deprivation disorders from rickets onward.
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